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GARDNER TOY DRIVE IN SCARBOROUGH: Former Canadian women’s hockey team players Vicky Sunohara, left, and Jayna Hefford display their Olympic gold medals for fans during the Scott Gardner Toy Drive for Ronald McDonald House held recently at Canlan Ice Sports on Dynamic Drive. >>>FIGHT, page 14

MIKE [email protected]

Residents from fi ve mid-Scar-borough neighbourhoods will be asked this week to step up a campaign against Toronto’s public school board.

Leaders of the Greater Bendale Advocacy Team, as the volunteer coalition calls itself, wants the board to stop its sale of land at David and Mary Thomson Collegiate for a townhouse development.

“We’re escalating now,” Mark Weiser, president of the Midland Park Community Association and a founder of GBAT. said this week.

Residents had met TDSB offi -cials after the board declared both the Thomson property and the adjacent Bendale Business and Technical Institute on Midland Avenue surplus in 2012.

After some consultations, the homeowners appeared to fi nd a suitable compromise with

Residents totake actionagainst plansfor townhouses

ANDREW PALAMARCHUK [email protected]

About two dozen offi cers from Scarborough’s 43 Division will soon be equipped with body cameras as part of a pilot proj-

ect.The offi cers, from the com-

munity response unit, will begin training in a few days at the police college and will hit the streets with the cameras by March.

Also taking part in the pilot project are the 55 Division pri-mary response unit, a team from traffi c services and a team from TAVIS (Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy).

“The training is starting

any day. They’re just setting up things at the college,” said Const. Randy Arsenault of 43 Division.

Offi cers already have cruiser cameras that activate when the vehicle’s roof-top lights

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“It’s not something I think that an offi cer has to be afraid

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Proud parents Ataule Selim, right, and Soumia Himmi welcome Mohammed Muntasir Abdellatif at the Rouge Valley Health System-Centenary site on New Year’s Day. Mohammed, who was born at 1:04 a.m, weighed in at 6 pounds, 4.5 ounces.

Scarborough hospitals welcome new year babies

ALI RAZA [email protected]

Scarborough welcomed its newest resident of 2015 as the former borough’s first newborn arrived at 1:04 a.m. on Jan. 1.

Mohammed Muntasir Abdellatif, weighing six pounds and four-and-a-half ounces, was born a little more than an hour into 2015 to parents Ataule Selim and Soumia

Himmi at Rouge Valley Health System’s Centenary hospi-tal.

Mohammed was originally due Jan. 9, but Soumia went into labour at 7 p.m. New Year’s Eve. Mohammed is Ataule and Soumia’s second child. The father and mother are excited to introduce Mohammed to his big sister, Fayrouz.

Ju s t a m i n u t e a f t e r Mohammed, at the General campus of The Scarborough Hospital (TSH), Salman Sayany and Zeenat Malam welcomed their baby girl Sayany.

She weighs five pounds and 11 ounces.

“At 1:05 a.m. there was a last push and our beautiful daughter was born,” Salman said in a statement from TSH. “My wife is a superstar. It was the happiest new year.”

TSH welcomed a third newborn in Scarborough at 6:32 a.m.

Father Qing Qiang Jin and mother Yan Ju Nian greeted their daughter, Zi Yan Jin, after a Caesarean section delivery.

“It’s so exciting to see our daughter for the first time,” Qing Qiang said in a TSH statement. “We’re proud and excited, and mom and baby are doing very well.”

In a tradition now in its 12th year, 200 well-chilled volun-teers will record whatever they can see flying or perch-ing around Rouge Park this

Sunday.The Rouge Winter Bird

Count and the species it tal-lies helps scientists check the health of the Rouge Valley and

spot certain trends. Residents wishing to par-

ticipate should send a message to [email protected] or call 416-264-2020.

MIKE ADLER [email protected]

D r i v e w a y r e p a i r i n Scarborough can come with a built-in penalty, and that should change, a local council-lor will tell a city committee this week.

Residents with older homes on larger lots have discovered they can’t make their drive-ways any wider than their single-car garage.

But many driveways are already wider than the garage, often because a previous hom-eowner made them that way, and residents putting on new asphalt are told they must trim their driveway to the proper width.

“The residents are penalized for making improvements,” Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie argued in a letter to Toronto’s planning and growth committee.

But in North York, that’s not the case on lots wider than 50 feet, Ainslie said, because a local driveway bylaw there was changed in 2000.

Scarborough’s bylaw is also a local one, one of many holdovers from days before Toronto’s amalgamation.

In an interview, Ainslie stopped short of calling the difference in bylaws unfair, but said he’ll ask the committee today to recommend having the North York rules, which allow enough space for two cars to park side-by-side, apply to Scarborough.

“How hard can it be to do?” he asked on Tuesday.

“This is 2015 now, almost 18 years after amalgamation. We should be doing a better job of

harmonizing bylaws.”Most houses in Ainslie’s

south Scarborough ward have lots at least 50 feet wide and were built before 1960, when single-car households were the norm.

Nowadays, he said, spouses and older children are often working and driving.

Ainslie wasn’t clear why Scarborough’s strict driveway-width rule has stayed so long in force.

City policies meant to pre-vent flooding and preserve the environment discourage cov-ering space on lawns with hard surfaces. Ainslie said council-lors have tried to change the Scarborough driveway rule before but, “we keep getting pushback from planning staff downtown” citing the loss of green space as a reason.

Ainslie, however, got a better reception from city transportation services staff in Scarborough who, he said in his letter, “indicated they would support this accom-modation and it would be straightforward to imple-ment.”

He also acknowledged some fellow councillors in Scarborough had supported the current rules, arguing wider driveways will make it easier to start rooming houses or bring other living arrange-ments to streets where other residents don’t want them.

Scarborough council-lors have effectively banned overnight parking – and even consideration of a permit parking system where resi-dents request it – on all but a few local streets, for similar reasons.

People passionate about outdoor ice – and who want more of it in Scarborough – get another chance next week to tell city officials how they feel.

Scott Harrison, a local hockey volunteer, said he will speak Tuesday morning when Scarborough Community Council considers a report on where the city’s ice rinks are, and where residents can find free unscheduled skating or shinny hockey games.

Last week, Harrison said other opinions, delivered in person or in writing, would help make the case for more outdoor rinks in Scarborough.

He tried to make his points to Scarborough councillors at a meeting last January, but was ruled out of order.

Though decisions by Scarborough’s former city and school board officials – who opted to cover rinks decades ago – have much to do with it, the area’s current lack of outdoor rinks angers many, including Harrison.

The Albert Campbell Square wading pool is trans-formed each winter into one of Toronto’s 52 artifical out-door rinks – the only one east of Victoria Park Avenue.

A second artificial rink in Scarborough is planned for McCowan District Park by 2016, the report states.

– Mike Adler

Councillor seeks to change driveway widening rulesNorth York, Scarborough have different bylaws, Councillor Paul Ainslie says

Centenary delivers Scarborough’s first baby of 2015

More ice would be nice in ScarboroughMany residents frustrated by lack of outdoor rinks

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Things are beginning to happen in this city to relieve traffic congestion. Short-term, the TTC has a host of projects on the way to assist in

that (see our list online at bit.ly/1vZ2zyN). A long-term strategy is just as critical, but also important is getting everyone in this city to do their own part.

Businesses in this city fuel the very need for com-muting. Deliveries need to be made. People run errands, grab coffees and many use their cars to do so.

But where these efforts plug up our roadways, people need to think differently about how they or their business impacts traffic. How can they change what they’re doing and be a part of the solution, rather than the problem?

On Monday, Toronto police and the city’s park-ing enforcement began their blitz on illegally

parked cars in the city’s core. Any vehicle caught causing congestion because they were stopped in a live lane was tick-eted or towed.

Though the law isn’t new, Mayor John Tory made the rig-orous enforcement part of his six-point plan to reduce traffic

congestion in early 2015. Commercial delivery and courier companies are a

necessity for businesses downtown. But unless they want to foot expensive towing bills, they’re going to have to find new ways to operate to avoid jamming up the streets during rush hour.

The strength of our economy is directly impacted by traffic in the city, so business leaders have a vested interest in getting people and goods moving. The loss of $6 billion in productivity each year is projected to grow to $15 billion by 2031.

Businesses need to think outside the box to change their impact: perhaps consider flex time, satellite offices or allow staff to work from home.

Tory’s suggested fewer events be hosted down-town and making sure marathons and charity walks aren’t monopolizing major roadways.

Residents should ask how they can change their own commuter routines so they are more consider-ate of other drivers.

And the city should measure the outcome of this enforcement campaign and apply that success to other commercial neighbourhoods in need of relief.

A sustainable, long-term transit strategy may be driven by the city but cannot happen without every-one making their own contributions to the cause.

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We all need to be part of the traffic solution

I thought I’d kick off the new year with some emails from

readers.Q. Hey Jamie, I have just

one question. When do you think Toronto will get an NFL franchise?

Anxious in the AnnexA. Hey Anx, the way

it’s looking now, I’d say it’ll happen the same day Hamilton gets an NHL team.

Q. A package deal. Very interesting. Or was that just a sarcastic remark meaning the chance of it happening is the same as Hamilton’s chance of get-ting an NHL team, as in, zero?

A. Uh, uh, uh. Nice try, Anx. But in your message you clearly stated you had just one question for me. Now I’m no mathemati-cian, nor do I play one in a community newspaper, but by my calculation you are, in fact, up to two queries now. So, my sug-gestion is you try back just

before 2016. The just-one-question statute of limita-tions will have expired by then.

Q. Hey Jamie, the last time the Leafs won the Stanley Cup was 48 years ago. I remember it vividly because the night before I went to a Rolling Stones concert. Any ideas what I’ll be doing the night before when they win it again?

Ever Yearning in East York

A. Hey Ev, I wouldn’t count out finding yourself at yet another Stones concert. Even if it takes another 48 years.

Q. Hey Jamie, I’ve been a figure skating fan for ages, but the truth is, I have no idea how to describe any of the moves. I don’t know the difference between a triple salchow and a double lutz, for example,

which I tell everybody are my favourites, inciden-tally. It embarrasses me to say, I can’t even explain what’s involved in a single salchow and single lutz for that matter. Can you help me?

Befuddled in the Beaches

A. Hey Be, sorry, but I also don’t have the foggiest notion how to do discern one move from another. Heck, I have two friends named Sheldon Salchow and Leon Lutz who don’t look anything alike and I can’t tell them apart either.

Q. Hey Jamie, do you think Major League Baseball should get rid of the DH?

Speculating in Scarborough

A. Hey Spec, absolutely not. They should leave the alphabet alone. It’s small enough as it is without them meddling with it.

Q. Hey Jamie, what’s your guess on whether a Canadian team will be in

the Stanley Cup final this year?

Wondering in WestonA. Hey Won, it’s not a

guess. I guarantee it. You can’t have a final without Don Cherry and Ron MacLean. It’s just not pos-sible.

Q. Hey Jamie, My favou-rite pro wrestler of all time is Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake. I know that’s just his sports stage name, but do you know what his real name is?

Reminiscing in RosedaleA. Hey Remi, you’re

right about that just being his wrestling handle. I’m not 100 per cent sure of the original, so don’t quote me on this, but I seem to recall reading once upon a time that his actual name is Barry “The Barber” Beefcake.

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looking aheadw Saturday, Jan. 24Stephen Leacock Robbie Burns Seniors DanceWHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Stephen Leacock C.C., 2520 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-4040COST: $5.Leacock Seniors are holding their annual Robbie Burns dance. Limit of 100 people. Must 55 years young. Coffee, cookies and soft drinks will be available. Come and meet Robbie Burns.

CheCk oUT oUR complete online community calendar by visiting www.scarboroughmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your Scarborough neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

it's happeningw Friday, Jan. 9Nia ClassWHEN: 9 to 10 a.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre, 3333 Finch Ave. e. CONTACT: Sukaina, 416-493-3333, ext. 256, [email protected] COST: $35 for members, $45 for non membersBody-mind-spirit holistic fitness class set to danceable beats from around the world. eight sessions.

Facebook and Social Media in Your Job SearchWHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Albert Campbell District Library, 496 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-8890 COST: FreeNeighbourhood Link Support Services presents a workshop on using social media and Facebook to stand out in your job search. Call to register.

Chair YogaWHEN: 10:05 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre, 3333 Finch Ave. e. CON-TACT: Sukaina, 416-493-3333, ext. 256, [email protected] COST: $35 for members, $45 for non membersYoga exercise adapted to the chair as well as seated dance movements. Specifically designed for older adults with limited mobility. Ten sessions offered.

w Saturday, Jan. 10Stephen Leacock Seniors DanceWHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Ste-phen Leacock C.C., 2520 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: 416- 396-4040 COST: $5.Limit of 100 people. Members must be 55 years and older. Coffee, cookies and soft drinks available.

w Tuesday, Jan. 13Scarborough Garden Society: Gardens of the World

WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Scarborough Vil-lage Community Centre, 3600 kingston Rd.

CONTACT: Anette, www.gardenontario.org, vicnet@

rogers.com COST: FreeGeneral meeting and lecture

by Martin Galloway. Refreshments included.

Staying Healthy with NutritionWHEN: 6 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Morningside Library, 4279 Lawrence Ave. e. CONTACT: 416-7078259 COST: FreeLearn about balanced diets, the difference between healthy and unhealthy eating habits, tips for vegetarians, grocery shopping on a budget, and reading nutritional ingre-dients. Registration is required.

Recreational BadmintonWHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. weekly WHERE: Immanuel Child Care Cen-tre, 21 Channel Nine Ct. CONTACT: Bette kamerman, 416-293-2938 COST: Call for details

w Thursday, Jan. 15French Immersion InfoWHEN: 6:30 p.m. to WHERE: St. Agatha Catholic School, 49 Cathedral Bluffs Dr. CONTACT: St. Agatha Catholic School, 416-393-5302 COST: FreeFor parents interested in learning more about French Immersion. Children who are five years old by Dec. 31, 2015 are eligible to attend the program.

w Friday, Jan. 16Sponsorship for Parents and GrandparentsWHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: Immigrant Resource Centre-IRC (CICS), 2330 Midland Ave. CON-TACT: 416-707-8259 COST: FreeRegistration is required.

w Saturday, Jan. 17Scarborough Philharmonic Presents Mixing It UpWHEN: 8 to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Church, 3333 Finch Ave. e. CONTACT: Sue Payne, 416-429-0007, spo.ca, [email protected] COST: $30 adults, $25 seniors, $15 studentsAn evening of musical diversity that acknowledges our evolving musical heritage. Program includes South Asian dancers and musicians, as well as young artists from St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Visit spo.ca for details.

w Tuesday, Jan. 20French Immersion InfoWHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: our Lady of Wisdom Catholic School, 10 Japonica Rd. CONTACT: 416-393-5273 COST: Free

w Thursday, Jan. 22Sales Skills for EntrepreneursWHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-8950 COST: FreeJoin small business coach Patti Poko-rchak as she deconstructs her sales techniques so that anyone can sell more. Registration is required.

w Saturday, Jan. 24Card Party and LuncheonWHEN: Noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Scarborough Bluffs United Church, 3739 kingston Rd. CONTACT: G. Darch, 416-261-7715, scarborough-bluffs.org COST: $20Join us for lunch, prizes and an after-noon of cards. Reserve tables of 4 to 6. Advance ticket sales only.

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In Canada people of all cultures live side by side in harmony, according

to one Kurdish artist, but that’s not the case in his homeland.

Dara Aram presents Identity, an art exhibit meant to promote Kurdish culture and identity amidst severe persecution and war experienced in Kurdistan.

The exhibit is on display at Scarborough’s Cedar Ridge Creative Centre until Friday, Jan. 9. It features the works of four Kurdish-Canadian artists: Aram, along with Khadija Baker, Henderen Chalak and Fethi Karakecili. The opening reception was held Sunday, Jan. 4.

Each artist brings a distinct art form to the exhibit. Aram specializes in paintings and installations; Chalak features his photo gallery of his hometown of Arbil, Iraq (also the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan); Baker offers a video installation; Karakecili performs tradi-tional and contemporary Kurdish dance.

“This exhibit is about identity, Kurdish identity, and how they live in the Middle East,” Aram said. “You know the situation right now, I won’t get into specifics. But there are prob-lems with ideologies and it’s gotten worse.”

The focus on Kurdish identity stems from the artists’ desire to portray Kurds in a positive tone. It contrasts from the portrayal of Kurds as victims of war, persecution and even geno-cide. The last year saw Kurds in Syria and Iraq struggle to survive in the face of civil war and an insurgency by Islamic State.

Kurdistan is situated across four different coun-tries – Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Under various govern-ments and regimes in these four countries, Kurds, as a minority, have experienced hardships in establishing

their identity openly and freely. With this exhibit, the artist hope to share Kurdish culture with Canadians.

“We’re a new commu-nity in North America,” Karakecili said at the recep-tion.

“Most people don’t know anything about our culture, our art or our music. So why

not share it with a Canadian audience? Why not share our culture with them? Because here in Canada, I can freely identify myself as a Kurdish artist.”

Aram and Chalak are from Iraqi Kurdistan, while Baker’s origins are from Syrian Kurdistan and Karakecili is from

Turkey. As a large part of Kurdish territory lies in eastern Turkey, a dif-ficult political situation has emerged for Kurds living in Turkey. It was because of this that Karakecili – whose opinions differed from the Turkish government – came to Canada in 2001.

The most prominent dis-

play features a painting and installation done by Aram, which consists of a patch of land with a white temple, and four boots, each point-ing north, south, east and west, and each pinned with flags of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran signifying occupa-tion of Kurdistan.

“That’s a map of

Kurdistan, each boot rep-resents a country,” Aram said. “I want to be politically correct, it’s not about the country or the people, it’s about the regimes.”

Overlooking the installa-tion is Aram’s giant painting that shows the persecution of Kurds by Middle Eastern governments. The temple, Lalish, is a holy site for Yazidis, a Kurdish commu-nity facing harsh circum-stances in northern Iraq.

“Each regime has its own way of persecuting Kurds – these regimes don’t let Kurds have their own identity,” Aram said. “Lalish is in Sinjar, where fighting is happening right now. The religion of the Yazidis is the oldest Kurdish religion, for centuries people have been trying to wipe out Yazidis because their religion is different. This is a sign of resistance.”

It was in front of this installation that Karakecili performed a spiritual pray-ing dance.

“I was representing a peacock, because a peacock is a holy animal for Yazidis,” Karakecili said. “A lot is hap-pening in the Middle East in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), Kobani and Sinjar. We’re trying to do something to bring attention to that.”

Karakecili continued to explain the significance of his dance movements, and how they are a form of prayer that he is performing for Lalish Temple and the Yazidis who are in need.

Aram has painted for more than 20 years and has collections in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Karakecili leads his own dance company, Dilan Dance Company and teaches at York University while pursuing his PhD in ethnomusicology.

Aram takes pride in having freedom to express himself in Canada. “My message was that you show who you are without fear.”

search for identityKurdish artists promote their culture through exhibit at cedar ridge

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Staff photos/Ali RAzA

Clockwise from top left: Paromita Kar performs a hybrid of a Kurdish traditional/contemporary dance Sunday during the opening reception for the Cedar Ridge Creative Centre exhibition titled Identity; Artist Dara Aram displays his work ‘Oil and Suffering’ at the Scarborough gallery; Fethi Karakecili performs a Kurdish ritual peacock dance; Shahriyar Jamshidi performs on the Kamancheh, an traditional Middle Eastern stringed instrument.

The Identity exhibit runs until tomorrow at Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, 225 Confederation Dr. Gallery hours Thursday and Friday are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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GalleryAn exhibition titled Tempermental will be at the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough until Feb. 14.

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conceived by Brendan Fernandes from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

You can see works by Mark Clintberg, Brendan Fernandes, Kim Kielhofner, Hazel Meyer, Will Munro, Taisha Paggett, Yann Novak, Elizabeth Price, Emily Roysdon, Alexandro Segade and Mateo Segade. The exhibit is curated by Erin Silver.

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The discussion will take place at Taylor Memorial Library, 1440 Kingston Rd., on Jan. 27 from 2 to 3 p.m.

Visit www.torontopubli-clibrary.ca

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The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca will take the stage starting tomorrow.

The Sherlock Holmes thriller is being presented by Theatre Scarborough at Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Rd. at Markham Road.

Catch the play between Jan. 9 and 17. Tickets are $20; call the box office at 416-267-9292.

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A funeral will be held tomorrow for an aspiring rapper and father of four who was shot in Scarborough during an altercation with police.

Daniel Nickolas Clause, 33, was shot at least once outside his Toronto Community Housing building at 682 Warden Ave. after interacting with officers responding to an armed robbery call at nearby Warden subway station early Dec. 31.

“He was a good guy,” said friend Tiberio Carniato, noting he had a beer with Clause hours before he was killed.

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My, did Toronto councillors and the mayor get off to a run-ning start this week.

Mayor John Tory and councillors looked at all sorts of ways to speed cars and trucks on their way with traffic management as police got busy towing illegally stopped vehicles during rush hour. The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee wasted no time putting staff to work studying whether or not to contract out garbage collec-tion. Tory was so excited to get going that he nearly fell over on an icy Toronto sidewalk.

And that was just by Tuesday.

In all this hustle-and-bustle, it was good to be reminded that not everything in Toronto is an around-the-clock project, and there are still some parts of the city where people know how to slow down and smell the roses.

And where better to do that than in Nathan Phillips Square.

On Monday, the city’s Government Management Committee kicked off the term

hearing from the team that’s managing the nine-year, $60 million project to spruce up the square outside Toronto City Hall.

The project got its start under the David Miller admin-istration in 2007, with a design by PLANT Architect and a budget of $40 million. The cost of that project has ballooned to about $60 million, with ele-ments added and removed through the years as political whims shifted. This week staff recommended adding back many of the elements of that revitalization that had been removed — which would add $11 million to the project.

If everything is added back — which is up to council — the $70 million project to improve Toronto’s civic square will be finished in 2016. If a repair of the ceremonial ramp going to the roof of city hall is included, that will be 2019.

If the city can find a res-

taurateur with $4 million to spend on building a restaurant there, we’ll have one of those too. Although after the failure of city hall’s own Café on the Square restaurant, it’s unlikely they’ll find anyone.

Until then, Nathan Phillips Square will be some flavour of the way it is now: partially open, dotted with hoardings, kind of arid: all for a project that in the end was intended to – let’s be honest – margin-ally improve the political and cultural centre of our city.

It’s this example — along with the decades-long reha-bilitation of the Gardiner Expressway and the con-tinuing mirage of subways in Scarborough — that reveals Toronto’s true political cult heritage, and against which the hurry-up culture of the Tory administration finds itself.

Council can hurry up as much as it wants now. Before too long, we all get down to the regular business, of waiting.

Our hurry up and wait culture

i Dave Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column appears every Thursday.

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the board on a townhouse proposal covering part of the school lands, but Weiser maintains that was on the understanding The Toronto French School Board had bought the collegiate, intending to use it as a high school.

The TDSB last fall, however, surprised residents by stating the French board had with-drawn its bid in April “due to lack of provincial approval,” and more townhouses were proposed on the Thomson site.

W h e n S c a r b o r o u g h Community Council didn’t approve, the TDSB applied to have its proposal heard at the Ontario Municipal Board.

Residents coming to a GBAT

meeting at the Scarborough Civic Centre from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8 will be asked to take part in a co-ordinated letter-writing and lawn sign campaign aimed, Weiser said, at forcing the board back into negotiations with the community.

But though he said area homeowners believe the TDSB’s decision to sell the Thomson site is “politics and bureaucracy at its very worst,” Weiser said the all-volunteer GBAT can’t afford the steep costs of fighting the sale directly at the OMB. “We want the process to stop and we want the community con-sultation to start again.”

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Arsenault noted he’s been in “plenty of situations” where he would have wanted to have

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line of defence for officers to protect us in certain situ-ations,” he said. “They’re extremely rare, but it will certain help in terms of false allegations.”

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Man chargedafter policeofficer struckby vehicleA man has been charged after a plainclothes police officer was struck by a stolen vehicle in Scarborough last month.

Police allege that at about 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 23 plain-clothes officers were in the Markham Road and Eglinton Avenue area investigating a vehicle that had recently been reported stolen.

Officers approached a vehicle parked at an apart-ment building, and the pas-senger surrendered without incident. The vehicle then fled, striking one of the offi-cers, near 215 Markham Rd. “The officer discharged one round from his service firearm into the vehicle, but the sus-pect vehicle fled the scene,” Const. David Hopkinson said at the time. “A short distance away, near 180 Markham Rd., that suspect vehicle was involved in a single-vehicle collision.”

The driver allegedly fled on foot. “We know that the bullet from the officer’s fire-arm did not penetrate into the cabin of the stolen vehicle...so there were no injuries as a result of the officer’s actions,” Hopkinson said.

The officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Kirisanth Pathmanathan, 24, of Toronto was arrested Jan. 3. He faces a number of charges including assaulting a peace officer.

w Video helps children prepare for surgery

“My job was to be still and take deep breaths. Then my body went into a deep sleep,” a girl named Anna recalls in a video preparing children for surgery at Rouge Valley Health System’s Centenary campus in Scarborough.

“Many people do not see the inside of an operating room until they have surgery, and it can be a scary experience - espe-cially for children,” Sye Fyfe, director of RVHS’s women’s and children’s program, said in a statement accompanying the six-minute video, which is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ-xfah0MeU

Anna, shown clutching a stuffed lamb toy throughout preparations for surgery, nar-rates her own “adventure” at Centenary, admitting she was “a little nervous” before having her tonsils and adnoids removed.

The video helps control chil-dren’s anxieties by familiarizing young patients and their families “with the environment and rou-tine of the surgical experience,” Fyfe said.

w nearly new shop winter re-opening

Knox United Church’s Nearly New Shop will re-open for the winter season on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

The shop is open between 1 and 3 p.m. Wednesdays and sells quality, gently used clothing for all ages.

Knox United Church is on Midland Avenue, just north of Sheppard Avenue.

w stacey centre seeks help for roof repair

Scarborough’s Tony Stacey Centre for Veterans Care is appealing to the community for help as it raises funds for a much-needed roof repair to the facility, which opened in 1976.

Located on Lawson Road, the centre provides long-term care services.

An estimate for repairs to the roof came in at about $138,000, and the work is desperately needed according to officials at the centre.

Time is also critical as past a certain point next year, repairs will not be effective and the entire roof will need to be replaced at a cost almost four times as much as the repairs.

Anyone wishing to help out

the fundraising campaign, through donations of cash or perhaps roofing work services or material, can get more info at www.tonystaceycentre.ca or by calling Diana LeBlanc or Jennifer Laing at 416-284-3333.

w change for kids campaign underway

The Holland Bloorview Kids Re h a b i l i t a t i o n Ho s p i t a l Foundation’s Change for Kids campaign is raising money to go toward programs that help improve the lives of children with disabilities.

The campaign runs until Feb. 16.

As part of the campaign, Holland Bloorview is asking people to get on their social media feeds and use the #HBYOUfie hashtag to honour those who have made a differ-ence in their lives by sharing their stories via a photo or video. To encourage people to get involved, founding partner Scotiabank will match all dona-tions to Change for Kids offer-ing an additional $5 donation for each #HBYOUfie shared on social media.

For more information on the campaign, go to www.change-forkids.ca

w apply now for city summer rec jobs

The City of Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation is look-ing for qualified candidates for 2015 summer recreation posi-tions.

The types of recreation posi-tions available include aquatic instructors, lifeguards, music, art and dance instructors, fit-ness centre staff, special needs program staff, sports instructors, camp counsellors, facility staff and more.

Those who are interested in applying are asked to create a profile and apply online at www.toronto.ca/recjobs.

Completed online applica-tions must be received by Feb. 3, before 11:59 p.m. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a vulnerable-sector police reference check.

w agincourt chess club meetings

The Agincourt Chess Club meets Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. at the L’Amoreaux Community Centre, 2000 McNicoll Ave. at Kennedy.

Adults and seniors who are interested in playing chess are invited to participate in the weekly sessions.

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Toronto’s Gover nment Management Committee has recommended boosting the budget of the revitalization of Nathan Phillips Square by another $10 million to $70 million.

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City staff in charge of the project blame the dramatic increase in the cost on several factors.

Council had tinkered with the plan since 2007 when it was approved, and also work-ers found the aging infrastruc-ture of the public square at Bay Street and Queen Street West needed more work than originally thought.

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cil quite a few times,” said Toronto’s Chief Corporate Officer Josie Sciloi, who has been overseeing the project since 2012. “Council has approved every single item that’s come to council.”

Later this month, council will be asked to approve $10 million in items removed during the Rob Ford admin-istration: the upgrade of the underground PATH, the demolition of the Sheraton pedestrian bridge (which is the responsibility of the Sheraton hotel on the south side of Queen Street); the rehabilitation of the ceremo-nial ramp; repair of elevated walkways; and upgrades at Hagerman Street and Bay Street. If council approves that plan, it will add another $10 million onto the project, with all but the ceremonial ramp complete by 2016. The ramp would be finished under a separate tender in 2019.

Some members of the com-mittee expressed frustration

in the amount of time the city had taken on the square.

“We’ve been discussing this it feels like it’s been 20 years,” said York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata. “We can build a city in the time we build Nathan Phillips Square.”

The committee also asked staff to look again into the possibility of bringing a “high-end” restaurant to Nathan Phillips Square. Such a plan would be financed entirely by the restaurateur with the city leasing the land.

Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher cau-tioned against going forward on that matter without an “integrated approach,” argu-ing there are issues “finan-cially even in maintaining a restaurant in city hall.”

“An empty building on Nathan Phillips Square — I don’t want to be a part of making this decision,” she said.

Committee approves additional $10 millionfor Nathan Phillips Square revitalization

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